virginiasports.com:

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – No. 1 Notre Dame (10-1, 4-0) claimed the last three goals of the game and held UVA scoreless for the final 12:51 to earn an 11-9 win over No. 6 Virginia (10-4, 1-3) at Klöckner Stadium Saturday afternoon (April 27).

The Fighting Irish dominated the ground ball battle, 50–26, and UVA uncharacteristically committed 27 turnovers, eight of which were on the clear.

Payton Cormier scored a game-high four goals. Connor Shellenberger recorded one goal and two assists, but had six turnovers. Now with 183 career assists, Shellenberger tied Matt Danowski’s ACC career assists record. Defensively, Cole Kastner (4ct, 1gb) shined for the Hoos, holding All-American Pat Kavanagh to two goals and two assists along with five turnovers. Anthony Ghobriel (10-17 FO) and Thomas Colucci (3-6 FO) combined to finished above 50 percent at the faceoff X.

As the No. 4 seed, the Hoos take on top-seeded Notre Dame in a rematch of today’s contest in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament on Friday (May 3). Opening faceoff from American Legion Memorial Stadium (Charlotte, N.C.) is set for 5 p.m. on ACC Network.  BRACKET (PDF)

Virginia recorded a season-high attendance figure of 6,497 spectators at Saturday’s contest, which marked the program’s highest-attended game since 2013 and seventh best among all Division-I games held this season.

FROM HEAD COACH LARS TIFFANY…
“What a turnout. How fortunate we are that that many people care about Virginia lacrosse. And that’s what makes this loss hurt so bad. To see us not be able to take care of the ball – we don’t talk about turnovers with our men, almost ever. This is one of those ‘almosts’ though. Give Notre Dame credit. Each team caused 12 turnovers. That gives us 15 unforced errors. As we all saw in the fourth quarter, [we’re] just trying to get the ball back, trying to get something going and [we] just [threw] the ball away. I told the [team], ‘I have confidence in you. You should have confidence you. We have to have this confidence. Yes, we’ve lost a couple games but don’t let that sneak in. Don’t let that steal the belief that we have in each other.’ And unfortunately, something happened during that fourth quarter where we just gave the ball away, and that’s what’s frustrating.”